Inkstand



(No Model.)-

P. MITCHELL-r 'INKSTAND. No. 378,208. Patented Feb. 21,: 1888.

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FREDERICK MITCHELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

INKSTAN D.

SPECIPICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 378,208, dated February 21, 1888.

Application filed December 22, 1887. Serial No. 258,674. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK MiTorInLL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Im proved Inkstand, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to inkstands containing more than oneink-holder, and has forits object to provide a double inkstand in which one inkstand serves as a cover f or another beneath, and in which the parts are detachable, so that the inkstand may be convertible into a single inkstand, or be used as a double inkstand, as desired.

The invention consists in an inkstand coustructed-and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the invention converted into a single inkstand. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a modification.

In the construction of this invention an ink stand, 1, is mounted on a suitable base, 2, and may be integral therewith, as shown, or detached and resting in a socket therein, or connected thereto in any way desired. To the inkstand 1 is pivoted an inkstand, 3, by any suitable means, and, as shown, by a pin, 4, located in holes or sockets 5 in the top of inkstand 1 and bottom of inkstand 3, so thatinkstand 3 resting on inkstand 1 serves as a cover to the latter, and maybe swung to one side, as shown in Fig. 1, when theinkstand 1 is required for use. p

The inkstand 3 is provided with a cover, 6, pivoted by means of a pin, 7, secured to the cover 6, and projecting into a socket, S, in the top of the inkstand 3. By means of the foregoing construction, when it is desired to use the inkstand 1 as a single inkstand, the cover 6, with its pivot-pin 7, may be removed from the inkstaud 3 and the latter lifted off from the inkstand 1. The pin 4, which has remained in the socket 5 of inkstand 1, is then taken out, and the cover 6 applied to the inkstand 1 by inserting its pin 7 in the socket 5, in this way providing a single inkstand, as shown in Fig. 3.

In lieu of the construction heretofore described, the inkstand 14, resting on inkstand 1, may be provided with a hole or perforation, 9, extending through the inkstand at one cornor, as shown, and a pin, 10, may be inserted through hole 11 in a cover, 13, and through hole 9 in inkstand 14, and have its end projecting into socket 5 of inkstand 1. In this construction to convert the inksta-nd 1 into a single inkstand, a separate pin, 4, as shown in Fig. 2, would have to be employed in connection with the cover 13 and sockets 5 and 11. It is obvious that any form of pivot-joints may be used to convert the double inkstand into a. single inkstand.

By means of this invention economy of space is attained, as by having one inkstand resting on another a smaller base may be employed. It is also obvious that ink-cups may be used with the inkstands and rest therein, and that the inkstand may be of any shape desired. The inkstand herein described may contain two different kinds ofink,and access can readily be had thereto by simply moving the upper inkstand aside or the cover of the upper inkstand.

The inkstand may be made of glass or wood, or other suitable material, or partly of glass or partly of metal or wood, as desired.

Having thus described myinventiou, Iclaun as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A double inkstand consisting of one inkstand pivoted to and resting upon another, forming a cover thereto, and provided with a suitable cover, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with an inkstand, ofan inkstand connected thereto by a detachable pivot-pin, and resting thereon to form a cover,

' and having a detachable cover pivoted thereto,

substantially as described.

3. A double inkstand consisting of an inkstand with a detachable cover resting upon another inkstand and serving as a cover thereto, and connected therewith by a detachable pi votconnection, substantially as described.

4. Adouble iukstand consistingofinkstand 1, having the base 2, and the inkstand 3, having the cover 6 pivoted thereto by means of pin 7, resting in the socket 8, the inkstaud 3 being pivoted to the inkstand 1 by means of pivot-pin 4, resting in the sockets 5 of the inkstand 3 and inkstand 1, substantially as described.

FREDERICK MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

WM. M. LEVINE, E. S. DIBBLE. 

